English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic

Exports

External Debt

Exchange Rate

Military Budget as percentage of GDP

Beijing Olympics Medal Count

2

0

Location

Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela

Eastern Africa, west of Kenya

Area

5,128 km sq

241,038 km sq

Coastline

362 km

0 km

Climate

tropical; rainy season (June to December)

tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast